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Hah. I used double asterisks, should have seen that coming in hindsight. Muphry's Law.

• PhasmaFelis 9y ago
  I've often been frustrated trying to put more than one asterisk (not italic tag) in an HN comment. Serious question, what happened to WYSIWYG? The Web has supported it for like 20 years, why have we standardized on clunky in-line markup for rich text entry, pretty much everywhere?
  • a_t48 9y ago
    WYSIWYG is kinda crap on mobile. A checkbox saying "Don't format" would be nice, though.
    • imron 9y ago
      It'd be nice if the formatter would realise that two asterisks in a row aren't emphasising any text and therefore just leave them as is.
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  • FabHK 9y ago
    FWIW, you can indent text in a HN comment (by a few spaces), and you get a Blockquote like this, and *asterisks* survive: 2**47